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Tired of formatting your computer to get rid of spyware and virues?

Want your kids to learn more about computers instead of just playing games?

Get loads of fantastic. feature-packed. free software that does exactly what they need.

See different demonstrations and try out the Free software.

Burn copies of Free Software. Try it out at home.

Join us as our team celebrate Software Freedom Day 2007 in Manila! Organized by Computer Professionals’ Union (CP-Union), University of the Philippines Linux Users’ Group (UnPLUG), and Association for Computing Machinery, University of the Philippines Student Chapter (UP ACM), Pilipinas SFD 2007 will be a fun-filled day for both Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) advocates and newbies alike.

WHEN: September 15, 2007, registration starts at 8:30 a.m.
WHERE: Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) Building (direction)
C.P. Garcia Ave., Technology Park Complex, U.P. Campus, Diliman, Quezon City

“Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. With over 200 teams in 60 countries participating, it is a fantastic event to get your schools and communities involved in. Go along to your local event or start your own event and meet a wide range of people, all working together to help ensure our freedoms are maintained by the technologies of tomorrow.”
- http://softwarefreedomday.org/SoftwareFreedom
For the full list of activities for the event, click here.
For more details, visit UnPLUG’s SFD page.

Partner Organizations:

Advance Science and Technology Institute
IOSN
Office of Representative Teddy Casino (Bayan Muna! Partylist)
Philippine Linux Users’ Group
Software Freedom Philippines
Txtpower.org
University of the Philippines Computer Center

Supporters (Please email rick.bahague at cp-union dot org for coordination):

Stratpoint Technologies

Q-Linux

Na-install na ang MediaWiki 1.6 sa uplug.org. Some of the content from the blog has been moved to the main website already.

Malapit nang muling mabuhay ang ating website.

Mabuhay ang UnPLUG!

Open Sourcing in UP IV

July 2007

The UP Linux Users’ Group will be holding the final pre-election test/demo of the Halalan Voting System this coming March 1, 2007. It will be held at MH235 from 1pm onwards. Students of the College of Engineering are highly encouraged to attend since the system will be implemented in the coming ESC elections. See you there!

As part of the upcoming CS WEEK 2007, the UP Linux Users’ Group will hold a demonstration of the Halalan Voting System. It will be held on February 19, 2007 (Monday) at the third floor lobby of the College of Engineering in UP Diliman starting at 9am.

Update:
Instead of a Burnfest, we will hold a demonstration on 3D Linux Desktops (xgl/compiz/beryl/aiglx) but we will still be giving away pre-burned Linux distributions. See you there!

A group of Filipino open source advocates recently made it big on a global scale through an initiative to automate student council elections.

The University of the Philippines Linux Users’ Group (UnPLUG), through its Halalan Open Source Voting System, won an award for Team Philippines in the Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2006 Competition.

Halalan was one of the winners in the “Best plan for FOSS deployment project on new server for community benefit” category, sharing the spotlight with Ceres, a Disaster Prevention and Rapid Response Network system from Peru’s Team Cultura Libre.

For winning in the category, UnPLUG received a System p5 510 Express Server worth US$8800 courtesy of IBM, one of the principal sponsors for the global SFD 2006 celebrations in cooperation with Software Freedom International.

Plans for the deployment of this powerful server are being discussed in UnPLUG’s mailing list. Nevertheless, it is certain that the main goal of winning the server is to witness the realization of Halalan being used in the 2008 University Student Council elections, on the University of the Philippines’ Centennial Foundation Year.

SFD is an annual worldwide celebration of the virtues of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and is a public education effort to encourage its use to the public. Established in 2004, it has been decided that it be held on the third Saturday of September starting 2006.

Team SFD Philippines 2006 is composed of The UP College of Engineering - Department of Computer Science (UP COE-DCS), UP Computer Center (UPCC), Association for Computing Machinery - UP Student Chapter (ACM-UP), Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity (APO) - UP Diliman Chapter, Bluepoint Institute of Higher Technology Foundation, UnPLUG, and the Philippine Linux Users’ Group (PLUG). The team celebrated the local SFD celebration at the University of the Philippines - Diliman College of Engineering Theater.

More information about SFD can be found on its homepage at http://softwarefreedomday.org/, and the complete list of winners in the 2006 SFD Competition can be found at http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2006/Winners.

For more on Halalan, please visit the Halalan hompage at http://halalan.sourceforge.net/.

As part of the global Software Freedom Day celebrations, the University of the Philippines Linux Users’ Group (UnPLUG), UP College of Engineering Department of Computer Science (UP COE-DCS), UP Computer Center (UPCC), Association for Computing Machinery - UP Student Chapter (ACM-UP), Bluepoint Institute of Technology, and the Philippine Linux Users’ Group (PLUG) will hold the Third Annual Software Freedom Day celebrations along with the Third Quarter Free Technical Seminar for the year 2006 on 16 September 2006, from 9AM to 6PM at the UP College of Engineering Theater, UP Diliman Campus, Diliman, QC.

ALL ARE INVITED - FEEL FREE TO COME AND JOIN!

*This is just a preliminary post, please visit this site for any updates regarding our local SFD 2006 celebration.

Calling all IT enthusiasts!

Be part of the most anticipated IT event of the year!

Philippine Youth Congress for Information Technology (Y4IT) 2006!

September 13, 14, 15 at University of the Philippines, Diliman, to be held at 3 venues - SIMULTANEOUSLY!
UP Theater, UP Film Center, UP Bahay ng Alumni.

Featured Topics

* Interactivity Design
* Ubiquitous computing
* Digital Photography
* Network Services
* Mobile Computing & Embedded Systems
* Success Stories in ICT
* Blogging
* Next Generation Gadgets
* Mobile Games
* Software Engineering & Best Practices
* Inetllectual Property
* Life in Call Centers
* Open Source Technology
* Voice over IP (VOIP)
* Tech-Based Entrepreneurship
* 3D Modeling, Rendering & Animation
* POD Casting / VOD Casting
* Bioinformatics
* 3G Phone Technology
* Philippine National IT Standard Examination (PhilNits formerly JITSE)
* Recent Trends & Issues in ICT

For more information and to view the details for registration, visit http://y4it.up.edu.ph

Y4IT 2006.

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